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06-05-2006, 10:01 PM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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|  monster garage: baja trophy truck new episode...
its on now here...... i LOVE prerunners/baja trucks.....could be a sweet episode
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06-05-2006, 10:06 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Under the 4444
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06-05-2006, 10:10 PM
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| MWRCA'er  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Machesney Park IL
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Watching it right now, it seems like a good build. No old parts, rigged together stuff. Looks top notch.
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06-05-2006, 10:19 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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It's a booty fabbed truck... JJ just needs to stick to mopeds
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06-05-2006, 11:05 PM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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watching hour two. the race part.....
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06-06-2006, 12:07 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004
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i liked it.was better then the norm mg.
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06-06-2006, 01:12 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: anaheim
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hmmm...is it rwd or awd? i did watch it and want to make a truck like that, but iam too lazy...
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06-06-2006, 06:26 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern Maryland
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06-06-2006, 08:17 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Easthampton
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i watched it they ended up breaking a rear trailing arm hiem(sp) joint at mile 218 so they had to quit, it was still cool though
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06-06-2006, 08:29 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FLAGSTAFF
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the cantileaver suspension was poor design, too close to the tail......a simple push and its outa commision, If they had used Johnny joints they would have stayed in the race | |
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06-06-2006, 08:33 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach
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That was a pretty cool episode. I saw the truck racing at the Laughlin Desert Challenge in January and it didn't even come close to the other trucks out there.
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06-06-2006, 08:39 AM
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06-06-2006, 04:24 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach
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Oh wow way to go for shooting me down! For your information, I was just saying that, even though the show made the truck out to be a wild truck, which it still is, there are trucks out there that would even put that one to shame. It was just my little way of saying how extreme these trucks really are. I don't know if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed or what, but the whole rolling of the eyes smily thing is really lame. I am quite sure that I have worked around these types of trucks far longer than you have, so I really don't see why you need to act that way. By the way, it's Robby Gordon.  |
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06-06-2006, 04:35 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FLAGSTAFF
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06-06-2006, 04:49 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2004
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actually that chassis was 10 years old, jessie said that that's the only one they could get their hands on.., i think the should have really strengthened that back bumper.. especially after they cut the sh*t out of it.. bdr |
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06-06-2006, 05:04 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FLAGSTAFF
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Other than driver the funky cantilever rear suspension design was just way to fragile........Jesse and the truck is the cover of may 06 dirt sports magazine..
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06-06-2006, 05:07 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach
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rockwerks - YGPM. That was indeed a 10 year old chassis and front end setup, and when compared to trucks coming out of shops like Geiser Bros., Porter, and others, this setup far pails in comparison. The only real rule in the SCORE trophy truck classes is that the truck runs a fiberglass body (besides tech stuff like tubing size, etc.), which is why you'll see some of the trucks as class one cars with a truck body (the Gibson trophy truck, Chet Huffman's trophy truck, etc.). Even Robby Gordon's H3 that he entered in the Baja 500 is a class one car fitted with a truck body. Trucks bear huge variations when compared to another, ranging from the modern G&R Geiser-built trucks, to the Baldwin trucks, to the Herbst trucks, and to Robby Gordon's shop's trucks. These trucks are all setup remarkably different from one another, leacing a substantial amount of room for differences among the class. Heck, even the CST and Evan Evans Pro 2's have raced as trophy trucks. There's even a retrofitted pro truck from the Ivan Stewart series being run as the current Desert Assassins truck. I'm not exactly sure where I'm going for this, except for that there is a HUGE amount of room for variation within the SCORE trophy truck class, and, that the Monster Garage trucks far pails in comparison performance-wise to a lot of the modern trucks, and even some of the older ones like the current Herbst truck. By the way, it is rumored that Jesse James is having Dick Porter build him a new truck, LOL.
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06-06-2006, 05:17 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Fremont/Newark, California
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06-06-2006, 05:19 PM
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06-06-2006, 05:54 PM
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